"Cathexis", sci-fi animation short film, AUJIK, Stefan Larsson, 2012, Japan

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Cathexis
November 8, 2012

Cathexis is a collaboration with Scottish electronic musician christ. and a cognitive neuro-scientist at Stockholm's university.
The concept of the film is how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) transcends with human emotions.
In the video several examples of this is manifested by an fictional esoteric group called AUJIK.
This project was funded by the Swedish art grants committee and Helge Ax:son Johnsons foundation.

All music by Christ.
Thanks to Christopher Horne. Petter Marklund, Kei Nashi, Ay Nasxie, Atsushi Tato, Kazuko Kohno, Anthony Merrill and Ernest Fenollosa

Cathexis is a progressive project and currently the film is 22 minutes and divided in to five clusters:

QUALIA: form, spatial, physics and metamorphosis.
AMYGDALA: the limbic system, neurosis, psychosis, anxiety.
LABRIDAE: gender, animus/anima-complex, hermaphroditism.
MURMURATION: computation, trajectory, patterns.
MANDALA: immersion, interaction, transcendence.

A Cathexis motion picture soundtrack was released on British record label Parallax sounds on October 15th 2012.
 
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